Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Imagine working at the forefront of the cloud industry, helping shape the infrastructure behind some of the world’s most demanding cloud-native workloads. The AKS Infrastructure team builds the automation and control systems behind Azure Kubernetes Service, one of Microsoft’s most popular and strategic cloud services.

As a Software Engineer on the AKS Platform Infrastructure team, you will solve deeply technical distributed-systems problems across self-healing, autoscaling, observability, capacity management, performance optimization, component deployment, security, and reliable production operations. You will build platform engineering solutions that eliminate manual toil and help AKS support mission-critical workloads, emerging AI scenarios, and the next generation of cloud-native infrastructure.

This is a unique opportunity to accelerate your career, develop deep cloud infrastructure expertise, and shape the future of hyperscale managed Kubernetes.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the tools and systems that manage hundreds of thousands of virtual machines powering Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Improve the performance, availability, and efficiency of Kubernetes clusters across a large-scale global fleet.
• Design automation for cluster lifecycle operations, including deployment, upgrades, repair, validation, and safe rollout of infrastructure components.
• Develop tools, services, and safety mechanisms that prevent infrastructure issues from becoming customer-impacting incidents.
• Partner across AKS and Azure teams to deliver secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure changes.
• Participate in production operations and on-call rotations, using operational learnings to drive durable engineering improvements.
• Contribute to an engineering culture through technical design, code reviews, mentoring, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, Bash, Rust, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, Bash, Rust, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, Bash, Rust, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

• Experience with Linux or similar Unix-like server environments OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with Containers, Kubernetes, or other cloud-native technologies OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with cloud computing and infrastructure management concepts OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with observability databases and platforms such as OTel, Prometheus, Datadog, Elastic or equivalent.
• Experience with Cloud-based telemetry data stores such as Azure Data Explorer/Kusto, Clickhouse or equivalent.